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Really enjoyed this funny, quirky romance. The heroine is a fiesty chef determined to making a mark in the culinary world only to be stuck making and serving food to a stuck up writer. The hero is pressed to write the next novel but can't help but feel an attraction towards katie who challenges and cares for him when he gets bit by an iguana. I loved their humorous comebacks. They seemed perfect for each other.

This was my first read by Melanie Summers and it was quite a fun read! I really enjoyed Emma and Pierce's story chuckling along at times. Even knowing that they would end up together I found myself quite stressed when they were apart! I quite enjoyed this read and look forward to reading more from Melanie Summer!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me an arc of this book for an honest review! :)

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for letting me read this book.
This was a very enjoyable read, and hard to put down. The two main characters have important careers they each need to work on, and what ensues is a deliciously funny situation involving an iguana, medication and singing. From there, the relationship grows, and it's quite delightful to read; how they get to know each other physically and mentally.
It's by no means an instant romance, which makes the journey all the more greater.
Really looking forward to Leo's book.
Unfortunately I'll never be able to watch Edward Scissorhands again without thinking of this book ;)

The second book in this entertaining series.

Emma has now finished college and is a chef. She heads back to her families resort in Paradise Bay expecting to now be in charge of one of the restaurants in the resort, but when she gets there finds she is going to be the personal chef for the new private villa.
The first occupant is writer Pierce. All he wants to do is finish the book he has been failing to complete for the last two years, but then he meets Emma. They are both attracted to each other, but can it go any further than that?

A great read, looking forward to the next book in the series.

I haven’t read any of the previous series, but I throughly enjoyed this. I liked the witty writing, and pierce and Emma were perfect! I look forward to reading the next! Thank you to netgalley for the arc.

Cute book. No great story but a good one to read on a slow afternoon. Took me a day to finish it. Easy read. Definitely a good poolside book.

I love a book that makes me laugh out loud. After reading the first in this series, I knew I had to get my hands on this one! I love the character development. Emma and Pierce are fun to get to know. I hope there will be more from this author!

Imagine if George R.R. Martin was a sexy, aristocratic, misanthropic guy. That’s basically the conceit of this very enjoyable novel. Pierce Davenport has written a series that mirrors A Game of Thrones. Just like Martin, he hasn’t been able to finish the final book and the HBO fictional-counterpart is fed up waiting for him to get over his writer’s block. They’re threatening to finish their hit TV series based on his book by having the showrunners write the last season. And Pierce knows how inferior their treatment will be. Since that is exactly what happened with the HBO series of Game of Thrones, this was a very set-up. Since Pierce is super rich, he decides to hide away at an exclusive island resort where he’ll be the only one there in order to meet the deadline he’s been given for finishing his novel.

There he meets Emma, one of the family who runs the Paradise Bay resort. She’s just graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and is excited to return to the family resort and, she hopes, take over as chef at one of the resort restaurants. Except her brother assigns her to be the personal chef to Pierce.

Their first meetings get off to a very bad start with Pierce coming off as a real “wanker” with his demands about his food and his request that she not distract him by delivering the food in person.

After some humorous plot complications, she ends up having to type up Pierce's writing as he works to finish the novel. Of course, they fall for each other and then end up facing numerous other plot complications.

I found the set-up very intriguing and the dialogue and narration was snappy and witty. This was a very fun read.

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.